The Start and Ending of WWI

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este and his wife, Sophie, was the main cause of WWI starting. Serbia and Montenegro had been under the occupation of Austria-Hungary for quite a while, so the Serbian activist group, The Black Hand, set up an attack point where the Archduke and his wife were to be driving through on a car. Several of the activists attempted to throw bombs in the car but hit the wrong car and were captured. The Archduke and his wife went to the hospital to visit those injured in the blast, but thanks to an engine stall, were left sitting ducks in the street. The leader of the attack, Gavrilo Princip, saw the car, ran up to it, and used a pistol to kill the Archduke and his wife.

This gave Austria-Hungary an excuse to go to war with Serbia, and soon WWI started.

At the end of the war, after a long, bloody war, during which a huge number of world-changing weapons and innovations were made (Which got skipped in the videos, funnily enough, along with practically the entire war, which I will never forgive Tom Woods for), Germany was blamed for all the destruction and given an absolutely enormous bill for the war, even though Austria-Hungary was the country that started the war in the first place. Without this bill, Hitler almost certainly never would have been able to rise to power, and WWII might never have started. Now let's see if Tom Woods decides that another war in which hundreds of millions of people die in is worth mentioning in my next essay.